Police shot and wounded a man in a Brooklyn apartment while serving a search warrant Wednesday morning, authorities said. The man is in stable condition at the hospital. (Sheila Paras/Getty Images/Flickr RF)

Police serving a gun search warrant shot a man in his Brooklyn apartment building early Wednesday, authorities said.

The man, identified by sources as 32-year-old Kyron Cradle, was taken to Brookdale University Hospital with a leg wound. He was in stable condition, officials said.

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Emergency Services Unit officers entered Cradle's small basement apartment about 7:35 a.m. and found him with a woman, sources said. Someone had reported several days ago that Cradle had a gun.

Cops told Cradle not to move several times, but he started to reach under the bed — prompting an officer to shoot, sources said.

The officer fired once, striking Cradle in the right leg. Cops found a kitchen knife near the bed, sources said. Investigators will look for the gun that was reported by the tipster.

Cradle is on probation for drug possession until 2017, sources said.

He had 11 prior arrests, mostly for drugs. He was first arrested in 2001 for gun possession, sources said.

Mel Walker, 54, who owns a barber shop down the block, worried the shooting will affect business.

"When people see 20 police cars out here, no one's going to want to come to my shop," said Walker, who has been running Finally Mel's Barber Shop for five years.

A next-door neighbor who only identified herself as Nacole heard about the shooting from another neighbor.

"He's not a gangster," Nacole said of Cradle. "Everybody knows him on this block. He's a good dude."